All music now is influenced by Hip Hop. It's so deeply ingrained in the culture.
In literature as in life, to conform to anything is to knuckle under to your inferiors.
The one who comes to question himself cares for mankind.
Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.
Art is not to throw light but to be light.
I don't consider myself to be a painter. I think of myself as someone who has used the medium of painting in an attempt to extend - give an extra dimension to - the medium of words. It happens very often my writing with a pen is interrupted with my writing with a brush - but I think of both as writing.
Come now, my child, if we were planning to harm you, do you think we'd be lurking here beside the path in the very darkest part of the forest?
Not to take this web of dualities as a sign we are on the right track would be a bit like believing that God put fossils into the rocks in order to mislead Darwin about the evolution of life.
I've realized that the only thing I'm interested in is the performance. If the performance is right, then I'm happy. You offer up the dialogue and then the performance comes around.
Few people ever kill for the right reasons, June. Most do it for the wrong reasons. I just hope you never have to be in either category.
We went to see 'Twilight' all together actually and we can't believe how bad it was.